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Patients report acceptance of AI in healthcare, but don’t prefer it

Health Care Dive

Though some patients believe using AI in healthcare could reduce medical bias and improve diagnostic accuracy, the vast majority would rather see a human for services ranging from diagnosing a rash to managing their diets.

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Best Practices for Visitor Identification in Healthcare Facilities

PDC Healthcare

If you’re involved in security within a healthcare facility, you’re responsible for the safety of all people within the building – visitors, employees, and patients. Balancing the wants and needs of these parties in a healthcare facility can be difficult, especially when attempting to create a secure and welcoming site. Visibly identifying all visitors is […] The post Best Practices for Visitor Identification in Healthcare Facilities appeared first on connectID - PDC Healthcare Blog.

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What’s ONC-certified health IT? Why Do We Require it for MIPS 2023 Reporting?

p3care

Today, advanced IT has become an integral need for everybody. That’s why every sector has integrated modern technology as a fundamental aspect. Likewise, the healthcare sector is no exception to this trend. Healthcare practices find it difficult to handle significant PHI in their systems. Therefore, they need reliable and secure means to gather, store, and share this data.

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Key Leadership Competencies: Virtual Leadership

Medi Leadership

Three years since the pandemic forced so many healthcare and business functions to go remote, virtual leadership has emerged as a crucial competency for high-performing organizations. Just as important, the speed, ease, and efficiencies we’ve gained from working virtually is now a basic expectation for many workers — an expectation we need to meet well if we’re going to attract and retain top talent.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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A Promising New Program Treats Co-Occurring Mental Health and Opioid Use Disorders

The Rand Blog

People who have an opioid use disorder and either clinical depression or PTSD are hard to reach, hard to treat, and hard to hold onto. A new collaborative care model called CLARO aims to help patients who otherwise might disappear into the cracks of the U.S. health care system.

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HITLAB summit warns that digital health for all will need careful investment

Fierce Healthcare

“Digital health will cease to exist,” read large on the screen behind Merck Global Health Initiative Fund President Bill Taranto at the second annual HITLAB Innovators Summit in New York City. | Columbia University hosted the second annual HITLAB Innovators Summit in New York City where industry insiders trumpeted the potential for digital health interventions while warning of the dangers of unchecked tech implementation.

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Houston Methodist nurses use software to boost completions of advance care plans

Healthcare It News

For Texas health system Houston Methodist, the major challenges to obtaining completed advance care directives included the time constraints of primary care physicians in addressing advance care planning with their patients. THE PROBLEM In addition, patients too often crash during a hospitalization with no advance care directives in place to guide care.

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How to Make Social Media Work for You

Healthcare Success

Organic Social Media When social media exploded onto the scene nearly two decades ago, marketers and healthcare professionals were a little too excited about its potential for healthcare marketing. Who could blame them? The fantasy was great. ‘All I have to do is figure out how to create a free Facebook business page, and then our business will get lots of new patients the next day!

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Digital health app users report increased bipolar depression correlated with worsening air quality

Fierce Healthcare

Air pollution shown to increase depression symptoms in individuals with bipolar disorder, a new study published by Cambridge University Press found.

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Home health industry group sues CMS, HHS over payment cuts

Health Care Dive

The National Association for Home Care and Hospice said regulators used “an illogical and invalid methodology” in a new payment model.

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Transport Accident Commission taps The Clinician to harness patient-generated data

Healthcare It News

A new value-based programme of the Victorian government's Transport Accident Commission has started collecting and analysing patient-reported outcomes and experiences. TAC, which supports people injured in transport accidents, just launched the Enhanced Recovery Program to raise the quality of care and improve the outcomes for their clients. Based on a media release, the programme will leverage The Clinician's ZEDOC platform to gather and analyse PROMs and PREMs.

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How to Boost your MIPS 2023 Performance Score?

p3care

Every provider has complete awareness of the Quality Payment Program. The MIPS under the framework of QPP promotes the value-based care model for all new and old providers. So, the program awards the performance score after evaluating the reported data. Afterward, the participant either gets an incentive or a penalty. It all depends on the MIPS performance score.

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VA, Stanford Medicine unveil plans to develop new comprehensive cancer center in Palo Alto

Fierce Healthcare

Stanford Medicine and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) unveiled plans Friday to collaborate on a project that will bring a new National Cancer Institute-designated joint cancer care and rese | Stanford Medicine and the VA unveiled plans on Friday to collaborate on a project that will bring a new National Cancer Institute-designated joint cancer care and research center to the VA Palo Alto campus.

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Telehealth visits garner fewer follow-ups than in-person appointments, Epic finds

Health Care Dive

Researchers argue their findings demonstrate that telehealth doesn't require additional visits.

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Exclusive Q&A: How digital health solutions can make money

Healthcare It News

Ralf-Gordon Jahns, managing director of Research2Guidance, joins MobiHealthNews to discuss R2G's findings on effective monetization strategies for digital health solutions.

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We must overhaul how Ontario’s hospitals are governed. Our lives depend on it.

Healthy Debate

The Minden ED closure serves as a timely wake-up call on how our hospitals are governed. It's our responsibility to demand better.

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Hospital outpatient departments charging 'roughly double' for biologics compared to physician offices: report

Fierce Healthcare

Hospital outpatient departments are marking up the prices for biologic medicines more than physician offices, particularly for “innovator biologics” that have clinically equivalent and lower cost a | Consistently higher markups among hospital outpatient departments hamstring potential savings payers may hope to see down the line as more biosimilars become available, warned the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

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Patients continue to utilize telehealth for mental healthcare: Fair Health

Health Care Dive

Stakeholders await final post-pandemic telehealth guidelines after mental healthcare utilization increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Location, Location, Location – Understanding Health Consumers’ Evolving Definition of Convenience

Health Populi

The definition of “convenience” in the eyes of patients, consumers, and caregivers is multi-faceted, with the concept of “location” shifting both physically and digitally. We learn this in new research from JLL , the global real estate services company. “Why is a real estate services company doing research into consumers’ views on health care?

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Where Will All the Wagner Group Mercenaries Go Now That Russia Has Exiled Their Leader?

The Rand Blog

Russian oligarch turned warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin is in exile in Belarus, but what will become of the tens of thousands of fighters who signed up to risk their lives for a paycheck or a ticket out of jail? It seems likely they will continue fighting, mostly because they have few better options.

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Medicare Advantage's quality bonus program needs an overhaul: Urban Institute

Fierce Healthcare

The quality bonus program (QBP) that rewards Medicare Advantage (MA) plans fails to achieve its two main goals: fairly rewarding MA insurers that actually improve quality and encouraging beneficiar | The Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Program suffers from what some experts call the “Lake Wobegon Effect”: Too many plans are rated above average. A new Urban Institute report suggests some cures.

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CMS proposes $375M reimbursement cut to home health agencies

Health Care Dive

Industry groups argue the payment cuts will exacerbate an already shaky financial situation for home health providers.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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The case for a pan-Canadian licensure model

Healthy Debate

With hospital overcrowding and staff shortages putting EDs at risk, pan-Canadian licensure is crucial to ease the pressure.

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Limiting Access to Reproductive Health Care May Undermine National Security

The Rand Blog

What signal does revoking policies related to improved access to reproductive health care send to young women who are considering the military as a possible path for them? Given an already concerning recruiting environment, can we really afford to further alienate an entire gender when it comes to protecting our national security?

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Healthcare Dealmakers—Amedisys agrees to Optum's $3.7B cash offer, UPMC's latest affiliation and more

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions are in no short supply as providers, health tech companies, payers and other industry players look to expand their businesses and gain a competitive edge. | Bright Health exits insurance business, Vandalia Health to add three hospitals, Centene divests AI platform and more M&A news from the month of June.

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More funding for cultural outreach is imperative to curb procedural Medicaid disenrollments

Health Care Dive

Investing in appropriate outreach as states resume eligibility checks is both humane and economically efficient, argues Jackie Leung, a public health researcher and professor at Linfield University.

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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What Causes Hip Pain That Radiates Down the Leg?

Healthcare Associates

What Causes Hip Pain That Radiates Down the Leg? The hip joint—known as the “ball and socket” joint—is the largest weight-bearing joint in the body. Any problem that affects your hips can cause a significant amount of pain and discomfort, especially when that pain radiates to another part of your body, such as the legs. Knowing the exact cause of hip pain that is radiating down your leg can pave the way for effective treatment that helps you find relief.

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Leveraging Personal Health Nurses to Connect the Dots Across the Care Continuum

HIT Consultant

Mary Bacaj, President, of Value-Based Care, Conifer Health Solutions Our nation is getting sicker. Research by the Employee Benefit Research Institute found that the number of people who spend $100,000 or more each year on healthcare increased by 50% between 2013 and 2021. The majority of conditions most represented in these costs included “nervous system disorders, heart disease, respiratory conditions, cancer, and musculoskeletal conditions.

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As maternal death rates rise, challenges with data collection hamper policy, improvement efforts, study finds

Fierce Healthcare

Maternal death rates more than doubled over the last two decades, with Black, American Indian and Native Alaskan women being particularly vulnerable to this trend, according to a

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Medicare Advantage’s quality bonus program needs reform, Urban Institute argues

Health Care Dive

The QBP is a significant source of revenue for MA insurers, but generally doesn’t translate to higher quality care for beneficiaries, according to the nonprofit’s new report.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.